On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:17:24AM +0000, Gavin Hamill wrote: > Hullo! > > I'm writing here 'because I never had this problem with Slackware' :) > > Okie, in /var/spool/mail, I have a symlink from 'gdh' to my real mailbox > in /home/gdh/Mailbox, and this link in this preset dir lets crappy stuff > like pine and UW's imapd work correctly... > > However, I've moved to Debian unstable, with qmail as the MTA, and > procmail as the MDA (?) ... Alas procmail complains very loudly when it > sees a link in /var/spool/mail - and as it's manpage says, will rename the > link to BOGUS.gdh.blahblah ... > > What I'd like to know is.. is there a way around this, or to disable this > 'feature' of procmail? > > If someone has a more elegant solution I'm all ears, and yes I know the > nicest solution is probably mutt and Courier-IMAP, but I like pine I'm > afraid:)
Do you really need this link? Why don't you don't you filter your mails to different mboxes in your $HOME with procmail? (With a .procmailrc) Pine should be able to do this, maybe UW-imap not. -- Thomas Guettler Office: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.interface-business.de Private:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://yi.org/guettli
